>Headphone purchase advice:
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For sub-$50 headphones and IEMs, check out the infographic in >Sup Forums wiki headphone FAQ:
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Any opinions on the Fostex TR series?
Daily reminder that all you need for perfect audio experience is $3 IEMs and EqualizerAPO + PeaceGUI.
Anything more is for retarded audiophools who love falling for snake's oil scams.
Alright, here's the deal: it's almost the end of 2017 and I've been using strictly only wireless Bluetooth headphones for the couple last years, simply out of principle and to gather all the needed first-hand experience on this entire "wired VS wireless" debacle. So, after using strictly only wireless headphones on a daily basis for almost two-and-a-half years, I can definitely without any doubt openly state that the "always wired only" and "only highly expensive portable players/no smartphone pleb-tier" pseudo-audiophilic FAGGOTS are completely and absolutely FULL OF SHIT. I won't argue with anyone here that wireless headphones in general and wireless sound technologies in overall were utter garbage just 5-or-so years ago, but nowadays it's NOWHERE even remotely close to being as bad as it was in 2012 and further down the line. Everything (literally EVERY THING) these so-called self-proclaimed pseudo-audiophilic kiddie shithead trolls are openly and absolutely brainlessly proclaiming loudly everywhere about MODERN wireless sound technologies being any "bad" or "not on par with wired" is 100% COMPLETE BULLSHIT. Abso-effing-lute LIE. These retarded deaf kiddies clearly never used any modern wireless headphones that cost more than 50$ (and actually good/worthwhile wireless headphones start from the 120$ mark AT THE VERY LEAST) and/or they never tried Apt-X LL or ESPECIALLY the GODLIKE LDAC. These FAGS basically don't know jack about any of this, but they act like they're the hottest and most knowledgeable shits around the block while in reality they're not hot, but just shit. MODERN wireless sound IS actually VERY good and does NOT lose to wired at all by the sheer quality of sound and latency (if it's apt-X LL or LDAC), WHILE being WAAAY more convenient and comfortable to use due to headphones being completely (WELL, DUH!) wireless. Fuck all those pseudo-audiophilic pseudo-elitistic sudo-entitled "pro-wired" scrubshits, I say. They know fucking NOTHING.
>What ~50$ range wireless headphones would Sup Forums recommend?
Unfortunately, there are almost no actually decent/good models in that price range. The closest one you can get to be of a "somewhat decent sound quality" is Rombica's "MySound BH-10 2C" model, but they have extremely crappy Bluetooth range and they usually tend to bug out and turn off even if slightest electromagnetic interference is nearby (like, for example, when you're in a convenience store and standing near a commercial fridge). Also note that they are literally "Chinkshit Wireless"-tier of headphones. If you never ever had a pair of wireless Bluetooth headphones before and you wish to get ACTUALLY worthwhile device from the first attempt - you'd have to spend AT LEAST 120$ and these will be MEElectronics' "Air-Fi Matrix 3" model and NO OTHER. This is the EXACT very point where actual wireless GOOD quality starts.
>Have they also opened it up for non-Sony headphones or do I need a Sony wireless?
That we don't know yet, as there are simply no massive amount of Android 8-based smartphones on the market so far, but I personally highly doubt that this will be Sony-only when it becomes mainstream, simply due to default LDAC implementation in all Android 8 devices making no logical sense in the case if Sony decides to not license this to other wireless headphone manufacturers. They've already licensed this to Android 8, so why the hell will they restrict it only to their wireless headphones now? That will be an asshole move and will undoubtedly garner a lot of critique on Sony's ass. I don't think that Sony's THAT stupid as to not provide other wireless headphone manufacturers with a LDAC license. And even if (and that's a very big IF) they actually in all seriousness restrict LDAC usage only to their wireless devices, this still at least leaves us an option to not use a Sony smartphone for it if we wouldn't want to, so there's at least that.
great entry level planar. The t50rp is the most balanced out of the 3 models.
However, best performance is only achieved by modding
>Name one worthwhile wireless headphone that isn't shit-tier or overpriced for what it sounds
Plantronics BackBeat Pro 2 SE (monitor, closed, neutral, 200~250$)
MEElectronics AirFi Matrix 3 (monitor, half-open, neutral-to-bright, price-wise this very start of the actual good quality in wireless headphones so this is as low as you should go if you're planning on using LDAC/Apt-X LL, 120~140$)
Marshall Monitor Bluetooth (monitor, closed, V-shape, 150~180$)
Master & Dynamic MW60 (monitor, closed, V-shape, high price yet not ineptly overpriced, 420~600$)
Bang & Olufsen H9 (monitor, closed, neutral, mid-to-high price, 250~300$)
Sony MDR-1000X (monitor, closed, warm-to-neutral, mid-to-high price, great ANC, 280~350$)
Onkyo W800BT (IEM, closed, neutral, 100% wireless, 150~200$)
JVC HA-S90BN (monitor, closed, V-shape, 120~150$)
All of these currently available headphones are absolutely worthwhile wireless solutions. The most expensive one in that list is Master & Dynamic MW60 and even it is not really overpriced (usually sells for 600$, but can be found for as cheap as ~420$ at some places during sale-off days).
P.S.
Answering the question that was made in the previous thread: "open" structure is not actually common in the wireless segment, at least when it comes down to monitor headphones, but if anything - you could always try MEElectronics' AirFi Matrix 3, they're partially open. Also please don't ever lump "closed" design and "bad" together all the time, because this is simply not true. All of the closed monitor headphones mentioned above are absolutely top-notch pieces of hardware and sound very good for their respective pricing segments (Master & Dynamic MW60 having the best materials and sounding phenomenally even in artificially created bad conditions, but it's sound curve, which is very clearly V-shaped, is definitely not necessarily for everyone. I personally prefer absolutely neutral sound).
I need a pair of cans that sound good, are wireless and portable, and have good noise cancellation. What can /hpg/ recommend to me?
stop spamming and shitposting
Post your budget and what curve you prefer.
>This underage wirecuck is mad
Reminder to ignore the butthurt bluetoothfag and that $13 wireless earbuds + EQ will have the same sound quality and convenience for a fraction of the cost of any of those placebomeme shitcans.
>Reminder to ignore the butthurt bluetooth poorfag
Yeah, we're definitely going to ignore you now.
>implying I'm poor or butthurt
Nah, I'm just enjoying my tendies :^)
How's it like to starve with meme orpheuses inferior to my EQ'd $13 shitbuds?
An unprecedented levels of shitposting motivated me to create or own /hpg/ CYOA! Chose wisely.
[spoiler]plz no bully this is my first time doing it[/spoiler]
Not even implying, just stating the facts.
Tech illiterate back. I'm on a £300 (~$400) budget. What is a curve?
I might actually buy those for when I go climbing
i'm not underage nor am I mad though
LOL, what the F is this kindergartner-tier shit?
That you're a poor and butthurt placebofag? Dayum straight muh niagga
>get out of here with your sensibility, you dont belong here
Fuck off, people with real experience contribute much more than faggots like you.
What's the closed back equivalent to hd600s?
tl;dr
Anything somewhat good + EQ
What should I decide on between the AKG K712 and Philips Fidelio X2? How hard is the K712 to drive, will my audioengine D1 do the job?
this made me chuckle
get the akg just to piss off all the sennheiser shills here and then take pictures and talk about how awesome it is
Are the Sennheiser Momentum 2.0 on-ear wireless headphones worth the money?
>~400$
With that amount of money you can pretty much go straight to Bang & Olufsen H9 or Sony's MDR 1000X. You won't be disappointed even one slightest bit with either. MDR 1000X also has the best ANC currently available on the market (it's even better than Bose's QuietComfort 35's, which was garnered as the world's #1 for quite a while).
As for the curve - a curve is the way how sound is shaped in headphones. Warm/dark curve is when bass overhangs over everything else, heavily overlapping mediums and highs. Neutral curve is when everything is as well-balanced as possibly could be balanced and tries to be as close to the "middle" of the sound range line as possible (meaning bass doesn't go over mids and mids don't go over highs, and highs don't rip your ears apart with uncomfortably/damaging sharp noise), Bright/ANALytical curve is when highs dominate the sound range and mids with bass are much lower than high pitched sounds, V-shape is a curve in which bass and highs are dominating over mids thus recessing it (V-shape can be two forms - U and V. V is bad because recession happens too edgily and suddenly which causes discomfort and dissonance, U is much better as the recession and uplift go much smoother throughout the entirety of the sound range, but V-shaped curve in general is not preferred by most simply because it doesn't sound good with absolute majority of musical genres...it's good only for a couple very specific types of music).
Treble before me Blasters it is!
If i can only have one headphone for my entire life it better be an indestructible one.
Quality work, maybe add some BT shit in here that this retarded BT shitposter keeps spamming.
You'll learn to appreciate it, eventually.
Thanks for the explanation on the curve, user, as well as for the recommendation.
Looking for a really overall good pair of headphones with a very wide soundstage but not completely missing out on the bass. Range $200-400, ideas?
Just read this and this , and you'll pretty much be almost absolutely fine.
hifiman he-400i or monoprice m1060 both have a fairly wide soundstage and top tier bass.
What is the second best headphone behind the HD600?
ma900 if you can find it
what is the HD600 of in ear headphones?
I should have added BT capacity to walmart shitphones. I also wanted to do melanin enhanced beats that would look real cool on person wearing them and would make pop and rap sound amazing but everything else shit and a pair of pink speakers shaped like penis that offer perfect life like reproduction regardless of the environment butt make everyone hear what you are playing in several kilometres and need to be 'charged' by sitting on them which will result in loud orgasms that would be also heard across several kilometres. Formating is kind of meh desu, I will update it later.
The shit formatting is part of what makes it great, don't change that.
He doesn't know jack shit on quality of the modern wireless headphones in any price ranges higher than ~50$, so he clearly can't.
K712
Beats
ER4SR
>B-But ear dildos
>BT capacity to walmart shitphones
Then you'd be an absolutely uneducated and utterly inexperienced retard, kiddo. An utter imbecile, even.
FUGG, forgot to add something like this to Mememids.
>Ethereal mids, you waifu was never so close to you. Life like vocal reproduction through an excellent smooth midrange as well as any frequencies there.
>being this mad about his shitty overpriced placebo memes
Just lol. Should've known you could've just bought one of these and gotten better than focal utopia sound quality.
Why the fuck you are so assblasted bratishka? This is supposed to be a joking take on all shitposting and headphone wars that occur here, plebposter got a chuckle and you are being buttblasted.
>This is supposed to be a joking take on all shitposting
and there it is folks, we're done here
It's because he created a persona to shitpost and then went too far and now unironically believes the same thing his shitposting persona does. Sad story.
>K712
He said really good overall, not "sounds like gang violence and watermelon."
You're not trying hard enough.
What's there to be buttblasted about? I'm just stating the very obvious facts. You don't know jack shit on wireless, so you can't write anything good on that topic, naturally.
I don't have to try for you to be eternally enraged :^)
MDR-7506,M-40x
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Reminder that this lying shitposter claimed to own Orpheus and SR-009 but has not provided pic+timestamp.
It's okay to admit it user. Not all of us can be intelligent enough to buy these and get orpheus+ levels of sound quality.
I already told you in the previous one, kiddo.
Just because I'm not playing your kindergartner-tier "show me your titties or else" games, doesn't mean that I don't have the actual thing. But stay mad about it, I guess.
You come onto a funpost with rage and accusations when it's just a joke on shitposts, looks PERDAQUE IS STRUCK to me but I will live you where you are so I can make stuff off you :3.
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What "rage", lol? That's just how I tend to converse with user on an everyday basis everywhere (not even just on 4chin). Because roughly 99.82% of all anons out there understand only such kind of a treatment.
K612/K702/Q701 + Comfort strap or replacement headband.
I own an HE-1, HE-60, HE-90, SR-007 and SR-009. Wireless headphones are shit.
I own all of those headphones and I have degrees in sound engineering and electrical engineering. Wired headphones sound much better than wireless headphones and HD600 sound better than all of those headphones.
>im not butthurt I'm just pretending
Hi guys. BTC is trading at $4600.
Which of these headphones is the best?
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It has to be one of those on that site, it's the only one that sells headphones and accepts BTC as payment.
My current headphones are Bluedio R and Koss Porta Pro. I like them both. I haven't really bought many luxury things for the lols or changed my lifestyle much since I bought in at a $60 average years and years ago so I figure I should get some headphones.
How do i stop?? Just got the TH-X00 but I wasn't even wow'd by it like i was when I first got the K702. How do I convince myself it's not going to get any better if I spend more at this point?
i never would have thought I would spend $1000 on headphones because I wanted to scratch an itch while waiting for the HD6XX. I was perfectly content for a couple years before this.
>Bluedio R and Koss Porta Pro
>both on-ears
You're going to feel a world of difference if you move to any of the full-sized headphones.
I love my SRH1540s (). Next best thing is probably the AKG K7 series because of how big the earpads are (K7XX and K712 have memory foam) but the build quality is a disappointment compared to the SRH1540. Heck I'm a bit disappointed in the TH-X00 after coming from the SRH1540 (and the MDR7506).
Something cheaper + EQ.
I love how that Shure looks, seems pretty sturdy too, how hard it is to get new pads in case you need? How is the comfort?
I don't know if you have any hifi shops around you with a headphone section, but after spending a few hours listening to just about every headphone outside of the Orpheus, lcd-1 and abyss at one of our dealers I'm fairly content with my $250 he-400i and I may consider stax in the future if the itch still needs scratching. I would definitely just spend lots of time listening to these models before making any decisions to purchase, you may convince yourself to stop spending.
Besides the fact that my speakers fuck everything on that headphone wall anyway.
Is the JBL LRS305 still the go-to entry level near field monitor?
I like my DT880 and have tested a bunch of others which sound nice but sound more like side-grades to me, thinking of saving a bit for actual speakers.
most comfortable over ear headphones with extra nigger bass?
Very easy and actually reasonably priced ($40).
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Comfort is amazing. I can wear it for very long periods without it getting too warm. If I had to complain, it's not deep enough so my ears touch the middle foam (it's thick though so no worries about dirt getting to the driver). Heck I might even try out the earpads on my 7506 beater headphones later on instead of the genuine sheepskin auray ones that are usually recommended.
Though if I had memory foam earpads for my K702, that would probably be superior since the earpads are much bigger. I would not actually recommend any AKG headphones though because OEM earpads are retardedly priced (and are per earpad, not per pair so watch out), never mind the build quality.
I would definitely say the the SRH1540 are the equivalent of the 7506 in terms of build quality in its price range.
For the price absolutely. Hard to beat in general. Depending on your music taste you may want to incorporate a subwoofer though.
The next step up would be Adam audio a5x or emotiva airmotiv 5s
Keep in mind that with monitors, and speakers in general, placement matters the most.
This is actually the biggest issue with speakers in general, if your room is not suitable for audio then they won't sound good. Especially if your desk is against wall then have fun with overblown bass.
What mods do you suggest?
ZMF Classic
For movies and casual gaming should i buy the fidelio x2 or the monolith m1060?
Distortion or Ringing? Which would you like?
>distortion
i heard someone say that THD with bass is good because it makes it "warmer". what does that mean
I read that the ringing on the m1060 could be fixed with the fuzzor mod
Fuck, i wanted to reply to
Anyone got good EQ suggestions for Hd800 maybe something to ease the harsher highs.
Try Metal571's HD800 EQ settings. They're in his HD800 review. Or you could SDR mod them.
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>Budget
Up to $50
>Location
Taco
>Source
PC
>Type of headphone
Headset pls
>Comfort level
Just wanna use them for like 2 hours a day at most.
>Past headphones
Shitty $5 headset.
Headset if possible, I don't wanna have to deal with a mic.
I got a pair of MDR V7506s and I want to know of a good cheap USB amp/dac that'll give it more oomph while retaining the clarity compared to the Realtek integrated from my mobo.
>SRH1540 user has fallen even more into the hole
Try LCD-2s, maybe. They're excellent.
no
they're easy to drive you would be better off saving/spending on a headphone that is an upgrade
Thanks
For what? I'm not a girl user
I second this statement. Mayflower electronics sells a mod kit as well.
Cool, i listen mostly to rock, but also movies and gaming.
Yeah, right now my room isn't ideal, but i should be moving to a bigger place next year so it shouldn't be hard to have more room behind my desk and maybe adding some treatment to the room.
Just ignore it, constant shitposting like "i bought headphone x and it sucks" and others leaves people on edge, so when someone clain to have a good headphone for whatever reason a "prove it you actually have it" response is pretty common.
The lsr305 should do fine with that. If you need more bass, the emotiva basx8 subwoofer is excellent for the price.
friendly reminder: every rp fostex mod ever tries to fix the thing they are terrible at: bass rolloff and subbass performance. the reality is that the drivers are far too small for planar to ever have good bass output. they simply don't have low enough distortion levels
Idol trash here.
What's your setup like, user?
yeah you're right. They have a roll-off problem like the hd600, only they're much flatter everywhere else, especially the treble.